Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.